Alan Kaufman "Unusual, profound, simple, brutal, idiosyncratic"-David Mamet/ "Wonder and awe"--Hubert Selby Jr.

How I Came To Write The Novel 'MATCHES'
February 4, 2008
- Many readers who know me only as a poet and memoirist may be rather surprised to learn that my first full-length fictional effort is about Israeli soldiers serving in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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On Hubert Selby Jr., The Greatest Post-War American Writer
February 4, 2008
- "God and the Devil are struggling for the soul of man," Dostoyevsky wrote, "and the battleground is the human heart." That could well summarize the oeuvre of Brooklyn-born Hubert Selby Jr., who died i
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A Brief Note On Beat Gravitas
February 4, 2008
- Irreverence, not piety, seems like the perfect sentiment to characterize the Beats.
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